In the edict issued by the orthodox emperor this time, the Korean political envoy Li Ji, the Korean envoy Liu Sangmin, the Korean imperial envoy Choi Yundeok, the Korean metropolitan inspector Huang Hee, and the former deputy commander of the Korean metropolitan secretary Kim Jong-seo can be said to be the biggest winners, because of the outstanding service to the Korean Emperor was named the earl of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, Li Ji was named the Xingshan Bo of the Ming Dynasty by the Junjin of the Xingshan Mansion of North Korea; Huang Xi was enshrined in the title of Nanyuan Bo of the Ming Dynasty from the Nanyuan Mansion of North Korea; Liu Shangmin was enshrined as Guangyunbo of the Ming Dynasty by the King of Guangyun Mansion of North Korea; Cui Yande entered the jue as Chao Ningbo; Jin Zongrui was knighted as Han Anbo.

The reason why Li Yuntian asked the orthodox emperor to give Li Ji and the five people knighthoods was not only that they were important ministers in North Korea who controlled real power, but also that they were the leaders of various factions in North Korea, so as to appease the Korean officialdom.

According to the rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the orthodox emperor would build a mansion for Li Xuan and Li Ji in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but due to the special situation in North Korea, Li Ji and Huang Xi were allowed to stay in North Korea and serve until they were transferred, and Li Xuan, as the king of the county, had to follow Liu Kunyu to the capital.

For Li Xuan, who had mixed feelings, Li Ji's five people were in a very happy mood, and they were naturally willing to become the earls of the Ming Dynasty, which was far more noble than the title of North Korea.

"Chin this!" When Liu Kunyu read out the appreciation in a frustrated manner, he closed the holy decree and said loudly to Li Xuan, "The king of Joseon accepts the decree!" ”

"Thank you!" Li Xuan hurriedly straightened up and took the holy decree from Liu Kunyu with both hands, and then said to Liu Kunyu in a respectful voice, "Lord Liu, I don't know if His Majesty the Emperor has anything to explain to Xiao Wang!" ”

"The emperor said that the king of Joseon is generous and loves the people, and he is really a model of the vassal king of the world, and the emperor has prepared delicious food and wine in the capital, waiting for the arrival of the king of Joseon." Liu Kunyu arched his hand at the oblique top and said to Li Xuan in a deep voice.

"Thank you, the emperor." Hearing this, Li Xuan's eyes flashed with a complicated look, knowing that he was going to leave North Korea no matter what, he felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart, and then handed over the holy decree to the attendants of the main hall of Gyeongbokgung Palace on the side, and knelt down again to thank him.

"The five lords, the emperor asked the official to tell him that due to the many affairs after the annexation of Korea into the Ming Dynasty, the five lords do not need to follow the king of Korea to Beijing to thank him, and after the situation in North Korea is stabilized, he will go to the capital with the prince Zhong to meet him." Liu Kunyu looked up at Li Ji and Huang Xi who were kneeling behind Li Xuan, and said quietly.

Although Li Ji and Huang Xi don't need to go to the capital, their family members have to go to the capital with Li Xuan, after all, they are already the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, and according to the rules, their family members must live in the capital, even if they are released, they can only take their concubines to go to other places.

This is naturally meant to be hostages, but the capital is the power center of the Ming Dynasty, and no nobleman is willing to leave this center, so even if he is released to work, he hopes that his family members will maneuver around in Beijing, so as not to leave the circle of high society in the capital.

However, the situation of Li Ji and Huang Xi was somewhat different, since they were newly promoted nobles from vassal states, so transferring them to the capital must have meant to weaken their local influence, and at the same time to control them.

Li Ji and Huang Xi naturally knew the reason and had already prepared for it, for them to integrate into the circle of the upper class elites in the Ming capital was much more important than staying in Seoul, and hoped that future generations could become a part of the Ming high society.

It is worth mentioning that in this edict of the orthodox emperor, the laws implemented by the Joseon state were abolished, and everything was based on the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

This means that the "mother law" that benefited the two groups of North Korean brothers a lot has disappeared at the moment when Liu Kunyu read the edict, and all North Korean students can participate in the Ming imperial examination.

Although this damaged the rights and interests of the two classes of nobles, it was clear that it won the support of the Korean people, including the sons of the two classes of nobles, which was the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's governance of Korea.

Since Li Yuntian has been in North Korea for more than two years, the matter of North Korea's annexation to the Ming Dynasty has become much simpler, and with Liu Kunyu conveying the holy decree, the major yamen in Seoul have changed the signboards at the door and continue to work in an orderly manner, without being affected in the slightest, which makes Liu Kunyu greatly admired.

In Liu Kunyu's view, all this kind of annexation to the country will always be resisted by some people or forces that have been incorporated into the country, but the annexation of North Korea to the Ming Dynasty seems to be uneventful, everything falls into place, and both officialdom and the people are very welcome to it, which is really rare.

This made Liu Kunyu admire Li Yuntian even more, if he were to change him, he would definitely use force to promote the progress of the merger, instead of being as patient as Li Yuntian to lay out and plan.

As the king of Joseon, Li Xuan naturally wanted to do his best as a landlord, and prepared a sumptuous banquet for Liu Kunyu to wash the dust, and if it was customary, it would naturally be Liu Kunyu, who had the imperial order, to sit at the head of the banquet.

However, because Li Yuntian is more special in the situation, Li Yuntian is also ordered to come to North Korea, so at this time, it is necessary to rank the seats according to seniority, Li Yuntian, as the left capital of the Ming Imperial Palace, is also a dignified loyal king, so he naturally wants to sit in the chief, Liu Kunyu and Li Xuan sit on his left and right.

Liu Kunyu is coming to North Korea for the first time, and because his level is too high, he didn't have the opportunity to come even if he wanted to, so this time he can enjoy the North Korean cuisine and dance.

The singing and dancing girls who danced at the banquet were trained by Liu Zhen, and the dancing posture was graceful, which made Liu Kunyu feast his eyes, although there were also Korean dance performances in Jinling, but it was the first time he saw such an original dance.

Because of Li Yuntian, Liu Kunyu did not have the slightest pressure to come to North Korea this time, and Li Yuntian was extremely relieved to do things, so this time he should have come to North Korea to relax.

In addition to conveying the holy decree, Liu Kunyu also had the duty to assist Li Yuntian in handling various matters concerning the annexation of Korea to the Ming Dynasty, the most important of which was naturally the martial arts imperial examination established by the orthodox emperor's decree.

The reason why it is a military examination rather than a liberal arts examination is because Korea, like Cochin and the Western Regions, will be governed by Jiangwutang in the future, and no civil officials in the imperial court want to go to such a remote and barren place where it is difficult to make oil and water.

The Orthodox Emperor did not do this for no reason, and the rebellion of Jiaozhi during the reign of Emperor Xuande made Emperor Xuande aware of the dangers posed by the officials sent to Jiaozhi by the imperial court.

In addition to the middle- and high-ranking officials, almost all of the officials selected from Yunnan and Liangguang were people who had no merit and had only studied for a few days, and they were willing to go to Jiaozhi for nothing more than the dream of making a fortune, and Emperor Xuande was shocked by the depth of the local disasters.

Therefore, when Li Yuntian pacified Jiaozhi and used military attachés from martial arts to govern Jiaozhi, and also achieved outstanding results, Emperor Xuande decided to appoint military attachés from Wutang to govern those remote frontiers.

Because the new martial arts of the Ming Dynasty led by Li Yuntian required the middle lifters to have a high level of cultural literacy, their cultural ability was not inferior to those civil officials who were born in the civil examination, and their sense of responsibility and ability were far better than those civil officials.

Therefore, over time, it has formed a convention, and the three provinces outside the Ming Dynasty are governed by military attachés from Wutang, and the civil officials in the court have no interest in those remote areas.

It is worth mentioning that the situation in Guangxi among the three provinces of the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty is relatively special, and all the officials below the prefect level have been replaced by military attaches in the martial arts.

In order to help Li Yuntian pacify the rebellion in Jiaozhi, Emperor Xuande let Li Yuntian take charge of the military and political affairs of Jiaozhi and Guangxi, and later Li Yuntian was promoted to the governor of Jiaozhi and Guangxi, and took over the military and political power of Jiaozhi and Guangxi.

Under the impetus of Li Yuntian, Guangxi, which was located in a remote area and was not valued by the imperial court, began to be governed by military attachés, but the middle and high-ranking officials were civilian officials, which was conducive to local governance.

Today, Guangxi's local affairs are booming, and those grassroots military attachés who were born in martial arts can be said to have made great contributions, and it is their selfless dedication that has made Guangxi have a thriving situation today.

After the orthodox emperor succeeded to the throne, due to his young age, the national policy of his daimyo has always been in accordance with the period of Emperor Xuandeok, so Korea is naturally governed by the military attache of the martial arts.

In order to make those North Korean students who came to participate in the imperial examination have a good year with peace of mind, Li Yuntian arranged the Korean Wenju in early October, and the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty in mid-October.

Although the number of students admitted to Wuju Enke is limited, Li Yuntian believes that the miscellaneous students who came to Seoul this time are rare talents in North Korea in recent years, so he will give those students who have been selected a chance to enter the college run by the Shobudang in Seoul for professional study, and after passing the examination, they will also be able to step into the official career in the future.

Li Yuntian's decision made those miscellaneous students in Seoul cheer, which meant that even if they couldn't pass the martial arts examination, they could enter the academy under the Jiangwutang for further study, and they would not come to Seoul in vain.

Liu Kunyu greatly admired Li Yuntian's decision, and Li Yuntian easily recovered the North Korean scholars, and these scholars will be the key to governing North Korea in the future.

In mid-November, the much-anticipated Daming martial arts ceremony was held in Enke, which was highly anticipated by the people of Seoul, and in addition to miscellaneous students, there were also many students from the two groups participating.

After all, the level of education of the two teams is higher than that of those miscellaneous students, and not all the students of the two teams are willing to be mediocre and lonely, which is represented by Jin Zongrui's second son Jin Chengbi.

In fact, this martial arts Enke is very simple, Li Yuntian only took some basic cultural knowledge, and did not come up with those unfathomable questions to embarrass those students.

This is also related to the criteria for the selection of talents in martial arts, after all, martial arts is not a literary ju, and it does not require too deep cultural knowledge, it is just a selection to enter the lecture hall and the academy to which the lecture hall belongs, and the skills they have to master should be learned in the lecture hall and the college to which the lecture hall belongs.

Moreover, unlike the usual North Korean imperial examinations, the new martial arts examination questions of the Ming Dynasty are mostly composed of fill-in-the-blank questions, multiple-choice questions and true/false questions, and the score system is implemented, so the results are clear at a glance, and the best are selected from top to bottom, so as to avoid the interference of human factors to the greatest extent and convince the candidates.

In fact, those students who came to participate in the North Korean imperial examination, whether they were the disciples of the two teams or the children of the common people, knew the novel and unique form of the Ming Dynasty's new martial arts examination for a long time, so they had contact with it when preparing for the exam, so they would not be in a hurry to face the examination questions.

The results of the Korean martial arts Enke soon came out, and Kim Seungbi stood out from many students who took the exam, and took the first place with the overall score, becoming the first martial arts champion after North Korea was incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, and earned a lot of face for the two classes of nobles in Seoul, which made Kim Zongrui smile and have great expectations for Kim Chengbi.

In March of the twelfth year of orthodoxy, Li Xuan took the families of Li Ji and Huang Xi and others to the capital with Liu Kunyu, and Li Yuntian personally sent them outside the city.

With the departure of Yi Xuan, the rule of the Yi dynasty in the Korean Kingdom officially came to an end, and a new chapter in the history of Korea began.